Fauveliopsidae is a family of

polychaetes Polychaeta () is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes (). Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called chaetae, which are m ...

belonging to the order

Terebellida Terebellida make up an Order (biology), order of the Polychaete, Polychaeta class (biology), class, commonly referred to as "bristle worms". Together with the Sabellida, the Spionida and Incertae sedis, some enigmatic families of unclear Taxonomy ...

. The genus name honours Pierre Fauvel. It is a small family, containing only three genera and about twenty species. They are

benthic The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "the depths". ...

animals, noted for their habit of sometimes living in the empty shells of dead

gastropods Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and from the land. Ther ...

, scaphopods, and

foraminiferans Foraminifera ( ; Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly ...

. Genera: * '' Fauveliopsis'' McIntosh, 1922 * '' Laubieriopsis'' Petersen, 2000 * '' Riseriopsis'' Salazar-Vallejo, Zhadan & Rizzo, 2019

References

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